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Arts Events Suspended Indefinitely

Dear Friends,

We're sorry to share that Middlebury College has suspended all arts events through May 2020.

If you purchased tickets to an event this spring, you will be receiving a gift certificate for future use. More details to follow from the Box Office in the coming days. We hope to find an opportunity to bring these artists back to Middlebury in the future, and will keep you posted as plans develop.

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Violinist Soovin Kim to Play All-Bach Program October 13

Local Favorite and Area Native Will Play an All-Bach Program

Middlebury, VT—Internationally renowned violinist Soovin Kim will appear on the Middlebury Performing Arts Series in a popular concert on Friday, October 13. In anticipation of the release of his upcoming new solo Bach CD, he will treat audiences to Bach’s E major partita, G minor sonata, and A minor sonata for solo violin.

Kim’s many honors include the Paganini Competition first prize, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. Most of us in Vermont, however, know him as one of our region’s most famous musicians. Raised in Plattsburgh, NY, he was the youngest-ever musician to join the Vermont Youth Orchestra (at age 10). He maintains a close relationship with the famed Marlboro Music Festival where he often spends his summers. Since 2009, he has served as co-artistic director of the acclaimed Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, held annually in Burlington, VT.

About the Artist

Korean-American violinist Soovin Kim is an exciting young player who has built on the early successes of his prize-winning years to emerge as a mature and communicative artist. He enjoys a broad musical career, regularly performing repertoire such as Bach sonatas and Paganini caprices for solo violin, Mozart and Vivaldi concerti without conductor as well as big Romantic concerti, sonatas for violin and piano by Beethoven, Brahms, and Ives with duo partner Jeremy Denk, and new world-premiere works almost every season.

In recent seasons he has been acclaimed for his “superb…impassioned” (Berkshire Review) performance of Alban Berg’s Chamber Concerto at the Bard Festival with the American Symphony Orchestra and a “sassy, throaty” (Philadelphia Inquirer) rendition of Kurt Weill’s concerto with the Curtis Chamber Orchestra. His Dallas Symphony performance of the Mendelssohn Double Concerto with music director Jaap van Zweden was noted for its “gorgeous tone, effortless brilliance and eloquent musicality” (Dallas Morning Star). He has performed in past seasons with the Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Stuttgart Radio Symphony, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, and the Seoul Philharmonic and Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra with Maestro Myung-Whun Chung.

In addition to his career as a soloist, Kim also performs as the first violinist of the Johannes String Quartet. He is well-known in Korea as a member of MIK, his ground-breaking piano quartet ensemble.

Kim is also a sought-after teacher—he previously taught at Yale University, Stony Brook University, the Peabody Institute, and Kyung Hee University in Seoul. In fall 2014, he joined the faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music with David Cerone and Donald Weilerstein, and graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music with Victor Danchenko and Jaime Laredo.